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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online for G Cloud
Service Description
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Contents
1. Service Definition ................................................................................................................................ 3
1.1 An overview of the G-Cloud Service ........................................................................................ 3
1.2 Key Features, Capabilities & Workloads .................................................................................. 4
1.3 Key Technical Benefits ............................................................................................................. 9
1.4 Authentication ....................................................................................................................... 10
1.5 CRM Online Infrastructure Diagram ...................................................................................... 11
1.6 Customization Options .......................................................................................................... 11
1.7 Configuration Tools ............................................................................................................... 12
1.8 Integration Options ............................................................................................................... 12
1.9 Information assurance ........................................................................................................... 15
1.10 Data Centre Tier..................................................................................................................... 16
1.11 Backup/restore and Disaster Recovery .................................................................................. 17
1.12 On-boarding and Off-boarding ............................................................................................. 24
1.13 Pricing .................................................................................................................................... 24
2. CRM Online Service Management .................................................................................................. 25
2.1 Service Monitoring ................................................................................................................ 25
2.2 Monitoring Approach ............................................................................................................ 25
2.3 Service Reporting .................................................................................................................. 26
2.4 Training ................................................................................................................................. 27
2.5 Ordering and invoicing process ............................................................................................. 28
2.6 Termination terms ................................................................................................................. 29
2.7 Data restoration / service migration ...................................................................................... 30
2.8 Consumer responsibilities ..................................................................................................... 30
2.9 Technical requirements ......................................................................................................... 31
2.10 Client Performance ................................................................................................................ 32
2.11 Details of any trial service available ....................................................................................... 32
3. G-Cloud Award Question Cross Reference .................................................................................... 33
3.1 Generic Questions ................................................................................................................. 33
3.2 Service Management ............................................................................................................. 33
3.3 LOT 3 - Software as a Service (SaaS) ...................................................................................... 34
3.4 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) ......................................................................... 37
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1. Service Definition
The name of the service is “Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online”
1.1 An overview of the G-Cloud Service
Microsoft Dynamics CRM online is a remotely hosted fully integrated customer relationship
management (CRM) system. Microsoft Dynamics CRM gives you the capability to easily create and
maintain a clear view of customers from first contact through purchase and post-sales. With tools to
enhance your company's sales, marketing, and customer service processes—along with native
Microsoft Office Outlook integration—Microsoft Dynamics CRM delivers a fast, flexible, and affordable
solution .Microsoft Dynamics CRM helps you drive consistent and measurable improvement in
everyday business processes.
Marketing: A clearer view of customers and more informed marketing investments
Segment customer lists into distinct benefit groups and then market to one or more of the identified
segments using a workflow-driven model. With Microsoft Dynamics CRM, your marketing
professionals can leverage tools for:
Customer segmentation.
Campaign planning and execution.
Data extraction and cleansing.
Analytics and reporting.
Marketing/sales collaboration tools.
Information sharing portals.
Sales: Get more leads and close more business
Access a complete view of customer data online or offline, and leverage tools that enable your sales
professionals to get real-time access to leads, identify cross-sell and up-sell opportunities, and close
more deals, faster. Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides:
Lead and opportunity management.
Account and contact management.
Territory management.
Forecasting and sales analytics.
Offline and mobile device access.
Quick access to products, pricing, and quotes.
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Customer service: Provide more value to customers
Respond faster to customer service issues and empower your service organization to anticipate,
address and deliver consistent, efficient customer care that contributes to long-term business
profitability. Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides functionality for:
Account and contact management.
Case and interaction management.
Product and contract management.
Knowledge-base management.
Service scheduling.
Workflow across teams and groups.
Service reporting and analytics.
1.2 Key Features, Capabilities & Workloads
Here’s some more information on how Microsoft Dynamics CRM enables extended CRM:
Activity Feeds
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Activity Feeds provide real-time notifications and quick sharing of information
through short updates. They appear on your personal wall in the What's New area of the Workplace.
Activity Feeds enable you to follow and learn about important activities that take place around people,
accounts, contacts, leads, and anything else that you care about.
Updates can be posted manually by you, or automatically based on predefined system rules through a
workflow. Activity Feeds can also be posted to by external applications through the Microsoft Dynamics
CRM web services API. Activity Feeds expose Microsoft Office Lync real-time presence functionality so that
you can initiate communication activities such as IM, phone calls, and emails.
Using Activity Feeds on Mobile Express offers users the chance to stay up to date with their organization
while on the go. From mobile phones equipped with Windows Phone 7.5, users can keep in touch with
colleagues by posting and commenting on each other’s pages, as well as keeping up with the latest news
on the leads, contacts, accounts, and opportunities they care about.
Auditing
The auditing feature in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 lets you track changes made to your business data.
Use auditing to analyse the history of a particular record, view a summary of everything that changed, or to
comply with regulation standards. Keep track of the changes done to a record, a field, or by a user.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM automatically creates logs for the changes that are tracked. In addition to these,
in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Update Rollup 5, you can also track when a user has accessed Microsoft
Dynamics CRM.
Improved Microsoft Office interface
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 introduces a new Office 2010 contextual ribbon for the Microsoft Dynamics
CRM Online and Microsoft Dynamics CRM browser clients and for Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Microsoft
Office Outlook. The new ribbon delivers a consistent, familiar navigation and user experience that helps you
better integrate Microsoft Dynamics CRM with your Office 2010 environment.
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Advanced user personalization
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 lets you configure a workspace that is personalized to meet your unique
role and information needs. Personalizing a workspace means that you can set the default pane and tab
that display when you open Microsoft Dynamics CRM. You also have control over what links appear in the
workplace view, how many records appear in lists, how numbers and dates display, and the language for
your user interface. Combine this personalization with the new dashboard feature to create a personalized
dashboard for your default view.
Role-based forms
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 displays forms based on user roles. This role-tailored design ensures that
the business professionals in your organization have fast access to the relevant information they need.
Role-based forms also prevent users from viewing data that they are not authorized to view.
Inline data visualization
In Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, you can quickly create and share inline charts with drill-down
intelligence. Using these charts, you can visually navigate data and uncover new insights that contribute to
your organization's success. View the charts you create from the main list of records or from the list of
associated records for an individual record. Share your charts with other users or teams in the organization.
Import charts created by other users into your records.
Dashboards
Dashboards are a powerful feature in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. Use a dashboard to see at a glance all
the important information you need to make key business decisions every day. Assemble and present
information from several places in Microsoft Dynamics CRM in a quickly-read format. This means that you
do not have to search multiple areas for the information you want. Dashboards are easy to create, and are
easy to revise as your changing business needs require.
Better Office Outlook experience
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 improves the integration of Microsoft Dynamics CRM into Microsoft Office
Outlook with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Microsoft Office Outlook. It takes full advantage of native
Outlook functionality, such as previews and conditional formatting, and presents Microsoft Dynamics CRM
areas as sub-folders in Outlook mail folders. With a few exceptions, these Microsoft Dynamics CRM areas in
Outlook include all of the same functionality as the browser clients.
Contextual document management
If your organization uses Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, you can easily manage documents that are
related to records within a particular entity. Using Windows SharePoint as your document depository, the
seamless interface in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 allows you to quickly add and edit documents that are
associated with a particular record. When you set up document management, Microsoft Dynamics CRM
creates the structure on your Windows SharePoint site that works with the entities and records that you
want for document management.
Goal management
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 gives you the ability to define key performance and business health
indicators. This way you can track and measure results against your organization's goals or metrics. Easily
and quickly define goals for a campaign or fiscal period. Combine smaller goals, such as for specific teams
or territories, into the overall goals for your organization. Create a rollup of all the goals into the actuals
that show how you are tracking.
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Interactive process dialogs
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 expands its workflow capability by adding interactive dialogs. Dialogs
present a consistent message to your customers. Also, dialogs collect and process information by using
step-by-step scripts to direct users through every process. At one level, you can use dialogs to guide
customer interactions and internal processes. At another level, you can increase dialog performance and
versatility by incorporating workflow logic. This logic invokes automated tasks by using the responses a
customer or user makes during the dialog script.
Cloud development
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is at the leading edge of cloud computing. Developers can take advantage
of the Windows Azure platform to develop and deploy custom code for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online by
using powerful tools, such as Microsoft Visual Studio. Using the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0, developers
can also incorporate Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Communication Foundation, and .NET Language
Integrated Query (LINQ) into their cloud solutions. Cloud development for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is
a powerful tool for customizing your Microsoft Dynamics CRM solution for optimal performance and
business results.
Solution management
Solutions in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 are a new way to save customizations and share them with
other users. You can create a solution or import a solution created by a developer outside your
organization. It is easy to share a solution with other users. A managed solution can be edited only by
specific users. An unmanaged solution can be edited by any user with an appropriate user role. A solution
can have version numbering, relationships with entities and other components, and security features based
on user roles.
Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace
Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace is your online solutions catalogue. These solutions help you accelerate
and extend your Microsoft Dynamics CRM implementation.
Quickly discover and apply industry-specific applications and extensions from Microsoft and its partners.
Then, Marketplace distributes your solution directly to you.
Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace is fully integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. Find your solution
directly from Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Summary
The new and enhanced features in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 offer new levels of user productivity and
collaboration. These features help you meet your specific business needs with a low total cost of ownership.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 delivers familiar, intelligent, and connected experiences to increase the
productivity and effectiveness of people inside and outside your organization.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 unlocks new opportunities and provides a single development environment
for cloud-based and on-premise deployments. Partners, including independent software vendors, global
system integrators, and value-added resellers, can quickly create, package, and distribute Microsoft
Dynamics CRM extensions and custom solutions.
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM delivers exceptional flexibility and business fit, combined with familiar user
experiences through its deep stack alignment with the Microsoft Office productivity suite, namely
Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Word. It also works well with other Microsoft technologies such as SQL
Server, Communication Server, BizTalk Server, Exchange Server, and SharePoint Server for a complete
Microsoft solution.
The application framework of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM product provides a range of capabilities
that enable solution builders to deliver the best of the platform approach to custom application
development. Applications are built with reusable services that can span multiple applications on a
single platform. The framework can be extended to create line-of-business (LOB) applications for a
wide range of business purposes. The technology is highly scalable, leveraging the combined power
and breadth of the Microsoft stack.
Applications are built using reusable services, as
depicted in Figure 1. The framework includes
integrated business services, such as e-mail, task
and activity management, and rich connectivity
with Microsoft Office Outlook® messaging and
collaboration client and other Microsoft Office
system applications.
For example, as shown in the CRM reference
architecture in Figure 2, a business entity
component can be reused across a number of
different CRM applications as a service.
CRM application development is based on
models, a capability that enables non-technical
business owners of a custom solution to guide its
development. CRM apps are models of ASP.NET
user interfaces, Windows Workflow Foundation
(WF) workflows, ADO.NET data entities, and
Microsoft Active Directory® security. With these
tools, CRM applications take advantage of forms
to manage data. This serves to abstract complex database level “Create, Read, Update, Delete” (CRUD)
functionality from the end user and solution developer.
The solution builder benefits from the ability of CRM to offer choice and flexibility to the LOB client.
As depicted in Figure 3, the CRM framework provides solution builders, and their customers, with
choices in solution development that can fit a variety of business requirements. With CRM, the client
can choose between buying software, building new solutions, customizing existing applications, or
subscribing to third party software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings. When combined with its integration
with Office Outlook, other Office applications, and the Microsoft Windows® operating systems, CRM
becomes a vehicle for cost-effective custom application development. Furthermore, an CRM
application’s forms, workflows, and data entities are persisted in metadata. The multi-tenant capability
of CRM results in applications that are portable across on-premises and hosted deployments. This
capability has important strategic implications for solution builders.
Today, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is packaged and sold as a single configuration. A “light”
version of the service is currently not available, nor is dedicated offerings or custom terms of service.
Figure 1
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online (Standard/Only Configuration) DSD-00001
Application Components
Workflows 200
Custom Entities 300
Storage Included 5 GB (Additional storage may be
purchased for a fee.)
User Access Online and offline
Mobility Support Yes - Mobile express
Application Administration
Custom Architecture Configurations Not available but components there
to deliver
Unlimited Application Troubleshooting Included
Patch Installations Included
Version Upgrades Included
Data Migration Tools Included
Data Migration Service Not available
Monitoring
Proactive Response to Alerts Included
Port and Network Device Monitoring Included
Proactive Hardware Failure Monitoring Included
System Software Monitoring Included
Application Server Monitoring Included
Database Monitoring Included
Third Party Packaged Application Monitoring Not available
Reporting
Custom Application Performance Reports Not available
Performance and Capacity Reporting Not available
Online Ticket Submission and Tracking Included
Online Documentation Included
Backup and Recovery
Managed Backup Included
Custom Backup Not available
Test Restore Validation Not available
Custom Restore Not available
Off-Site Data Storage on Removable Media Included
Storage
Hardware RAID Included
On-board Disks Included
Security
Proactive Critical Patching Included
Custom Patching Not available
Managed Firewall Included
Virus Protection Included
Service Level Agreement
Application Availability
Credit of 25% of the monthly per user fee for <99.9%.
Credit of 50% of the monthly per user fee for <99%.
Credit of 100% of the monthly per user fee for <95%.
99.9%
Customer Availability Reporting Not available
Service Interrupting Event Ticket Acknowledgement 8 business hours
Professional Support Plan Included
(Ticket acknowledgement—8 hours)
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Premier Support Plan Optional
(Ticket acknowledgement—
immediate to 4 hours based on ticket
severity)
Service Design Microsoft operates datacentres around the world. Each datacentre houses a network of highly reliable
equipment that hosts customers’ CRM instances and delivers 99.9 percent uptime. Microsoft Dynamics
CRM Online customers are provided with a managed resource instance of CRM that is allocated based
on their needs. Each customer is provisioned with their own customer database. This maximizes the
security and integrity of the customer’s data. Unlike other hosted CRM solutions, there is no co-
mingling of customer data. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online architecture provides customers with
complete autonomy over how they operate, manage, configure, and secure their CRM solution. For
example, customers can configure their own data schema, user interface, business processes, and
security model for their specific instance. In this way, they have full control over the application and its
functionality as if they were running it on their servers.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online also provides synchronization capabilities that enable on-premises
customer information to be synched continuously with their CRM instance in the Microsoft
datacentres. As a result, users have seamless access to their CRM system from a wide range of devices,
whether they are inside their corporate network or utilizing CRM from the Internet.
1.3 Key Technical Benefits
The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online service offers the following benefits:
Comprehensive CRM capabilities. Spanning sales, marketing, and customer service,
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is a full-featured CRM solution that is available to customers
in 40 markets and 41 languages.
Multi-layer security. Safeguards are applied on multiple fronts including securing the web
application with SSL, custom defined security roles which govern what users can access and
the actions they can perform, field level security, full business data auditing, and stringent
physical security of Microsoft datacentres including building and system/database access.
Additionally, the application itself uses standard security features of the Microsoft software
infrastructure on which Microsoft Dynamics CRM runs (such as Windows Server, SQL Server,
and Exchange Server).
Individual tenant administration. Customer and user administration features are designed
to increase self-reliance. Customers have complete control over all aspects of data structure,
user experience, business intelligence, and business process management.
Regulatory compliance features. Meeting increasingly complex regulatory requirements is
eased with ISO 27001-2 and SAS 70 Type II credentials for Microsoft datacentres.
Mobility device support. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online provides a configurable mobile
client that allows users to consume and update CRM information on a wide range of mobile
devices.
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1.4 Authentication
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online uses the Windows Live ID service to manage identity and trust within
the Windows Live ecosystem, including Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. Windows Live ID provides a
single sign on experience that allows businesses and customers to use a single set of credentials
(logon name and password) for accessing various Web sites or Web applications. Upon signing in, a
user may elect to have his or her credentials preserved by Windows Live to facilitate direct access to
the system without having to sign in again.
With Windows Live ID, the password recovery is based on a secret question/response provided by the
user upon registration. Adding a new user is as simple as entering the user’s name, email address, and
role into the new user administration and inviting them to the system. Users can be removed from the
system by disabling the user in CRM Online.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is planning to offer support for different authentication providers
from November 2011 upon request and broadly in 2012 thereby allowing:
Users to be authenticated against services managed by the customer.
Specific password policies to be specified and enforced by the customer.
Additional information about Windows Live ID is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/bb288408.htm.
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1.5 CRM Online Infrastructure Diagram
The CRM Online solution includes CRM Online server deployments that are integrated with other
components to provide a comprehensive, remotely hosted CRM Online service for organizations of all
sizes. In some cases, multiple primary datacentres are deployed, depending on the size and location of
user groups for a customer. A diagram of the high-level architecture for this service is shown in figure
2 which follows.
Figure 2: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Infrastructure Diagram
1.6 Customization Options
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is a highly customizable and flexible business application. The bulk of
customizations can be carried out through a set of Microsoft Dynamics CRM web-based tools and do
not require custom development. For cases where custom development is required, Microsoft
publishes a software developer kit (SDK) that includes guidance and code samples for further
customization of the CRM solution.
The Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK can be downloaded from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/bb928212.aspx.
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1.7 Configuration Tools
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online provides several avenues for configuration of the application through
a set of web-based tools. Customers can configure many aspects of the application including:
Web Service: Create a custom data model to structure and manage your data. This is
configured in the customization area of the application and can be included in a transportable
solution.
User Interface: Create or modify the user interface (forms) to see or input relevant data to the
system. You can specify which users or teams see a specific form by assigning security roles to
them.
Views: Create or modify system views to help people easily apply specific filters to CRM data.
Reports: Create new reports or modify existing Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online reports to
customize the way you capture, store, and view data.
Business Processes: Create or modify business processes which are an integral part of any
enterprise software application. A business process can be of two types: automated processes
(called workflows) that rely solely on communication among applications based on a set of
rules, and interactive processes (called dialogs) that rely on users to initiate and run the
process, and to make the appropriate decisions during the running of the process.
1.8 Integration Options
APIs, SDK
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 offers several programming paradigms designed to give you the
flexibility to decide what works best for your integration needs
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 provides an entity data model and Windows Communication
Foundation (WCF) Data Services technologies to provide a set of tools that simplify the development
of Internet-enabled applications that interact with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. This also enables an
additional programming paradigm: an organization service context that tracks changes to objects and
supports Language Integrated Query (LINQ) queries to retrieve data from Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Representational State Transfer (REST) – The REST endpoint for AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight
clients provides an alternative interface that you can use to work with Microsoft Dynamics CRM data.
Rather than directly invoking a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based Web service, you can
execute requests using a service that is based on a URI.
Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) – This programming paradigm lets you develop code
from non-.NET clients, and does not depend on the use of Microsoft Dynamics CRM assemblies. For
example, you can use this programming model to write code for Microsoft Dynamics CRM in Java.
For information about integration, including code samples, refer to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK
at http://msdn.microsoft.con/en-us/library/bb928396.aspx.
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Figure 3: Development technologies and APIs
Custom Code on Microsoft Servers
With Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online you have the ability to extend or customize the functionality of
the system through the integration of custom business logic (.NET code called Plug-ins). You can
customize the product to support the way your company does business, and you can add new
features to the product. The technology that enables your custom code to be developed and
integrated into the Microsoft Dynamics CRM server is called the event framework. The event
framework enables you to create rich vertical and horizontal solutions on top of Microsoft Dynamics
CRM Online by supporting the development and integration of custom business logic with Microsoft
Dynamics CRM Online in a reliable and portable way. After your custom business logic has been
integrated into Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, it can be executed either synchronously or
asynchronously. Business data can be passed to your custom code, which can then perform actions
based on the nature of the data, or modify the data itself. A plug-in is custom business logic that you
can integrate with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online to modify or augment the standard behaviour of
the system. Plug-ins are event handlers that are registered to execute in response to a particular event
in the system, e.g. on create of a contact record a plug-in can run and pass this information to another
system. Plug-ins are the foundation of CRM server integration.
Composite Interface (Mashups)
For a simpler approach to rapid integration, applications can be exposed as an iFrame within the
Microsoft Dynamics CRM user interface.
Another option for composite interfaces are Web Resources, they are files such as html, Jscript, and
Silverlight applications that can be used to extend the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web application. You
can use Web resources in form customizations, dashboards and the application navigation.
Because Web resources are stored in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and are solution components,
they can be easily exported and installed to any Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online instance.
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Third-Party Solutions
Application integration software from companies such as Scribe Software and Pervasive Software
provide pre-configured adapters for many third-party applications and compliant database
applications that can free developers from creating and maintaining code when either Microsoft or
other software vendors upgrade their applications.
Privacy Policy
The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online privacy policy covers the following topics:
Collection and Use of Your [Customer] Information
Collection and User of Information About Your [Customer] Computer
Changes to [the] Privacy Statement
Specific Features
o Transfer of Data
o User Invitation
o Error Reporting
o Data Export to Microsoft Office Excel
o Microsoft Dynamics CRM 5.0 for Microsoft Office Outlook
o Microsoft Dynamics CRM 5.0 E-Mail Router
o Customer Experience Improvement Program
o Import/Export Customizations
o Internet Lead Capture
o Help
To access the most recent version of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online privacy policy, go to
https://signin.crm.dynamics.com/portal/static/4105/privacy.htm.
To learn more about how customer credential information is used when they sign in to participating
sites, please read the Microsoft Online Privacy Statement at http://privacy.microsoft.com/.
Microsoft Obligations as a Data Processor
Safe Harbor
Safe Harbor refers to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s privacy framework regarding the collection,
use, transfer, and retention of data from the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area, and
Switzerland. Microsoft abides by the Safe Harbor Framework and certification to support data
transfers from the EU to the United States as part of normal operations.
EU Model Clauses
EU Model Clauses are a set of contractual clauses pre-approved by EU regulators that allow
companies to transfer personal data from the EU to a data processor (vendor) in a country or region
that does not provide adequate protection of personal data (such as Singapore or Hong Kong). The
data can be moved around as long as the data processor complies with the model clauses. For
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, Microsoft will not sign model clauses at this time, but anticipates
being able to do so in H1 CY2012. Investigation is underway to assess the implications of signing this
agreement. Microsoft continues to review and evolve its approach to addressing regulatory privacy
concerns for customers worldwide.
Refer to the Data Storage section of this document for complementary information on this topic.
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Data Processing Agreement
The Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is a document that is designed to address the seven principles
governing the recommendations of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) for protection of personal data in Europe. These principles are:
1. Notice—data subjects should be given notice when their data is being collected.
2. Purpose—data should only be used for the purpose stated and not for any other purposes.
3. Consent—data should not be disclosed without the data subject’s consent.
4. Security—collected data should be kept secure from any potential abuses.
5. Disclosure—data subjects should be informed as to who is collecting their data.
6. Access—data subjects should be allowed to access their data and make corrections to any
inaccurate data.
7. Accountability—data subjects should have a method available to them to hold data collectors
accountable for following the above principles.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is currently signing an “Interim Data Processing Agreement” under
NDA. The Interim DPA will cover customers who need a DPA to cover their business until Microsoft
Dynamics CRM Online is able to sign a full DPA (see the Certifications, Audits and Compliance section
of this document for additional information).
As a point of reference, Microsoft Office 365 currently signs Model Clauses and the DPA for their EU
customers. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is in the process of completing the engineering and
operations work to support this. Please refer to the section on Certifications, Audits and Compliance
Roadmap for more information.
1.9 Information assurance
The accreditation target for Dynamics CRM online is IL2.
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1.10 Data Centre Tier
While Microsoft supports the spirit of the Uptime Institute’s Availability classifications, which are
prescriptive-based for easy adoption by the industry as a whole, we have chosen to use a more
performance-based approach that uses science to match the SLAs to the customer need. Microsoft’s
data centers are engineered to provide 99.999% availability to meet our customer’s SLAs and service
needs. Microsoft invests significantly in the global operations, management, networks, and
sustainability of our facilities that deliver over 200 online services 24 x 7 x 365. Some of those services
you may already know and use today like Bing, Hotmail, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live and Windows
Live, which hosts more than half a billion active IDs each day, in 59 markets and is localized in 36
languages.
As most data center operators know, the physical design of the facility is only part of the equation;
Microsoft has invested over $3 billion in building our global facilities and networks and over $9 billion
in research and development to continue to build innovation and efficiency in our IT solutions. As a
result, Microsoft’s data centers are evolving at a more rapid pace than many facilities in the industry
and thus do not follow the guidelines outlined by Uptime Institute’s tier classifications. Therefore, we
do not pursue Uptime certification of our facilities. In addition to the wealth of operational insight
that comes with running one of the world’s largest data center portfolios, Microsoft uses IEEE Gold
Book data and third party reliability simulation software to continuously improve our data center
design standards. Microsoft’s global data center portfolio enables us to deliver the right data center
capability at the right time to match the specific service needs of our every day.
Generation 1, 2 and 3 facilities are designed to deliver 99.999% availability to meet our customer’s
SLAs and service needs. These facilities are fault tolerant and currently maintainable – meaning that
while critical components are being maintained, we can still absorb an outage of another critical
component. These data centers include:
Amsterdam (Generation 2)
Chicago Colocation Rooms (Generation 3)
Dublin 3 (Generation 3)
Japan (Generation 1)
San Antonio 1&2 (Generation 2)
Quincy 1&2 (Generation 2)
Generation 4 facilities are designed to deliver 99.999% availability. They significantly reduce
infrastructure and IT complexity, and allow us to compartmentalize risk depending on application
priorities. If an outage occurs simultaneously with maintenance, we have built capabilities into the
distribution that limit potential server failure to a subset of one colocation area. Considerable
engineering effort has gone into our Generation 4 facilities to simplify operation and minimize
opportunities for human error. These data centers include:
Boynton 1 (Generation 4)
Dublin 4 (Generation 4)
Des Moines 1 (Generation 4)
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1.11 Backup/restore and Disaster Recovery
Service Interrupting Events
A service interrupting event (SIE) is any event in an online service which affects the delivery of a
service, whether or not customers are online and actually affected.
There are two types of SIEs:
1. Unplanned (e.g. interruption of the WLID service where users would be able to log into their org)
One or more online services are unavailable
Employees notified by email (crmln) and updated as defined by the Customer Escalation
& Notification (CEN) documentation
90 percent detected by Operations, 10 percent detected by customers
2. Planned (e.g. moving of an org from one scale group to another)
Based on regional time windows with lowest historical service usage/connect
Customers proactively notified five days in advance
While service maintenance qualifies as a planned SIE, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is typically not
taken offline to perform routine service maintenance.
When a customer wants to understand the cause of an SIE, the following is the process and
documentation available to them:
Post-incident review (PIR)—A detailed report from Operations explaining what caused an
SIE and what Microsoft has done to prevent a similar occurrence in the future. Includes:
Incident summary and event timeline
Customer impact and root cause analysis
Lessons learned and actions taken for continuous improvement
o PIR report is delivered seven business days or sooner once root cause is identified
and service is restored.
o PIR criteria is Severity 1 or Severity A conditions impacting more than five customers.
Root cause analysis (RCA)—For customers who do not meet the criteria of a PIR, it is a brief
explanation, less detailed than a PIR and issued for Severity 1 or Severity A conditions only.
o If a customer requests an RCA for Severity B or Severity C, a best effort is made to
deliver it in a timely manner.
o Customers can request a PIR/RCA from Microsoft Dynamics CRM Support.
o Premier TAMs can coordinate PIR through the support paths outlined in the readiness
training.
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Severity Code Definitions
Priority in PS Impact
P1 “Service Down” Outage, Business Interruption, Business Risk, Public Security Issue, Public
Privacy Issue
P1 “Service
Critical”
Outage, Business Interruption, Business Risk, Public Security Issue, Public
Privacy Issue
P1 “Customer
Critical”
Outage, Business Interruption, Business Risk, Public Security Issue, Public
Privacy Issue
P2 Issue that does not have a reasonable workaround, and has customer,
operational, or business impact.
P3 Issue that has a reasonable workaround for customer, operational, or business
impact.
P4 Design Change Request (DCR)
A - Critical
Situations that involve a system, network, server, or critical program down
situation that severely affects customer production or profitability. High-
impact issues where production, operations, or development are proceeding
but could be severely affected within several days.
B - Urgent
Signifies a moderate business impact. The customer's business has a moderate
loss or degradation of services, but work can reasonably continue. The
customer is not experiencing an immediate work stoppage.
C - Important Indicates an issue with minimum business impact. The customer's business is
substantially functioning and has minor or no impediment of services.
D - Monitor Issues do not require additional action beyond monitoring for follow-up.
Backup and Recovery
Backup and recovery management is designed to mitigate the risk of permanent data loss. Backup
management includes systematic and periodic backups of server data. Recovery management enables
the restoration of entire server volumes or the reinstatement of data files to the last saved state.
Backup Management
Many aspects of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online system are configured in an N+1 redundant
configuration, to eliminate single points of failure. As a precaution against catastrophic failure of
multiple systems, full data backup to tape is done on a daily basis. Microsoft Data Protection Services
(DPS) encrypts all data prior to it being written to tape. DPS uses an encryption appliance with a
central key management system. The encryption process is a standard procedure in all Microsoft
datacentres and is FIPS compliant. The process is tested annually as part of the Global Foundation
Service (GFS) certification process.
Recovery Management
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online has invested significant capital to help ensure no single point of
failure. Furthermore, equivalent effort has been placed on operational best practices to help promote
continuous service availability. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Operations team maintains a
Systems Operations Manual that thoroughly documents the technical aspects of numerous processes
related to the availability of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online service. A monthly audit of different
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restore scenarios is conducted by R&D. This scenario includes steps to test back-up tape integrity.
Back-up policies also include testing the restoration process regularly.
Restoration of service is dependent on the situation. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online posts
notifications of pending service disruptions, including scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, to
the Organization Notification and Status area in the application.
The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online systems will also send service disruption notifications to
administrators and users through email. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Support team will
respond to such incidents within 24 hours, provide guidance on the process, and set expectations
regarding a service restoration timeline.
At this time service restoration is limited to datacentre incidents. Individual customer requests for
restoration are not supported as part of the existing standard Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online
offering. Refer to the Data Storage section for related information.
Data Storage
Microsoft stores customer data in region, in a local hosting datacentre. For troubleshooting and
support purposes only, Microsoft may need to transfer data out of region to the U.S. development
centre. When transferring data Microsoft follows applicable laws, and in the EU, that includes
transferring data only in accordance with EU Safe Harbor provisions or to areas the EU considers to
have an adequate level of data protection. Microsoft signed the EU Safe Harbor agreement in 2001.
See http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/Press/2001/May01/05-15SafeHarbourPR.mspx.
Microsoft Site Services produces vault reports that are furnished to a certified third party daily. When
the tapes are shuttled offsite, each tape is checked and accounted for on each end of the trip. Every
tape is tracked by a bar code, and that number is maintained in a secure system that tracks the
inventory and data on every individual tape.
Microsoft uses highly secure offsite storage for tape media during the retention period. Tapes are
protected against any threat, from natural disasters to man-made threats. From the outside, the
facility is anonymous, with no signs or logos to give away its purpose. Vehicles arrive at a secure
perimeter and must be positively identified by security personnel before gaining admittance to a
second perimeter, which requires successful authentication with a security card. Foot traffic is also a
double perimeter in the same manner. Each person who gains access to the facility must present
government ID, sign into a log, wear a visitor badge, and have an escort. The vault area is protected
by at least two intrusion detection systems and is monitored 24x7 by two separate security firms.
Random audits are conducted by a separate security firm on a regular basis.
The transportation of backup media to and from the vault is conducted by specially screened and
trained personnel in environmentally controlled and secured vehicles.
Metadata can be preserved by exporting customizations using the new CRM 2011 solutions packaging
features, which are a part of the customization administration tools. Data can be extracted from
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online in various formats including Microsoft Excel, XML, and other user-
defined formats using the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online API and data extract, transform, and load
tools. There is no limit to the amount of data that can be extracted and no limit on the frequency of
the extractions, as long as the customer’s activities do not damage, disable, overburden, or impair the
service.
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Data Retention
Customer data is backed up daily to tape and taken offsite. The data is retained on tape for 90 days.
The data exists for disaster recovery purposes; we do not offer “point-in-time recovery” as part of the
service.
Data retention is an important piece of any compliance program and necessary to fulfil proper
stewardship of data. It consists of requirements on deleting data and retaining data.
Maintaining data for shorter than necessary can violate contractual or legal
requirements, or affect security.
Maintaining data for longer than necessary can violate privacy regulations and is a top
customer concern and sales inquiry.
Once data is deleted, Microsoft has no obligation to provide it to the customer or law
enforcement.
Keeping data for long periods carries an additional burden requiring special systems to
track and make data accessible long term.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online does not provide any guidelines or services for archiving old
data at this time.
Data Asset Classification, Transfer or Exchange
An asset is defined as any physical object, virtual object, or logical information possessing business
value to the owner. The following are examples of logical, physical, and virtual assets1:
Intellectual property (source code, design documents) or data associated with a Microsoft
online service, customer information, and customer/subscriber data.
Data assets associated with administrative, management, and support activities such as
employee directories and operational documentation.
Data assets are identified, given a security classification, and tracked by physical location. The
inventory also records ownership and indicate when last verification of all inventory detail occurred.
The data’s asset owner, as defined in Microsoft’s Online Services Security Policy, is ultimately
accountable for the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their data. Their specific duties related
to data they own or manage are as follows:
Classification should occur upon acquisition of the asset, or during the design of a product
whose specifications include handling potentially sensitive data.
Ensuring that each asset thus classified is protected in accordance with the guidelines
established throughout the existence of the asset (acquisition through disposal).
All data created by, transiting, or stored by Microsoft’s online services must be classified into the
following categories (ranked in order of decreasing sensitivity):
High Business Impact (HBI)
Moderate Business Impact (MBI)
Low Business Impact (LBI)
1 Based on NIST Special Publication 800-60, “Volume I: Guide for Mapping Types of Information and Information Systems to Security
Categories,” Revision 1.0.
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Once classified, assets must be protected according to the standards appropriate for their defined
asset class. For example, data assets falling into the moderate impact category are subject to
encryption requirements when they are residing on removable media or when they are involved in
external network transfers. High impact data, in addition to those requirements, is subject to
encryption requirements for storage and for internal system and network transfers as well. Microsoft
acknowledges that in certain scenarios the value and risk associated with transferred or exchanged
data may increase due to its combination with other data assets. For example, a list of user names
derived from one service and transferred to another, when combined with a list of corresponding
postal address information could result in the creation of personally identifiable information (PII).
Therefore, when transferring or exchanging data assets, Microsoft personnel thoroughly reviews the
intended usage, as well as the potential for increased business value or risk, and applies appropriate
safeguards to ensure adequate protection of the transferred data in a combined state. In order to
minimize the risks associated with the exchange of data between organizations, all such exchanges
between internal or external organizations must be reviewed and approved by the data owner or
associated agent per comprehensive Microsoft asset handling guidelines. Data exchanged with
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online uses the Microsoft implementation of the industry-standard Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. SSL helps to secure data at several levels, providing server
authentication, data encryption, and data integrity.
Individuals who are authorized to access any asset must use the appropriate measures to gain access.
Access to any production system requires multifactor authentication, including such measures as
password, hardware tokens, smart cards, or biometrics. Reconciliation of user accounts against
authorizations for use happens on a monthly basis to ensure that use of an asset is appropriate and
needed to complete a given activity. Accounts no longer needing access to a given asset are disabled
and an audit report is produced monthly.
Refer to the EU Model Clauses section for information on data transfer within the EU.
Data/Asset Destruction
Any paper documentation containing MBI, HBI or PII is destroyed by a secure shredding service.
The storage subsystem makes customer data unavailable once delete operations are called. All
storage operations including delete are designed to be instantly consistent. Successful execution of a
delete operation removes all references to the associated data item and it cannot be accessed via the
storage APIs. All copies of the deleted data item are then garbage collected. The physical bits are
overwritten when the associated storage block is reused for storing other data, as is typical with
standard computer hard drives.
After the 90 day retention window, the back-up tape media is sanitized prior to reuse or destruction.
The Microsoft policy for disposal of obsolete/damaged hardware requires that all retired technology
assets be sent to Microsoft Technology Recycling. Microsoft Technology Recycling protects Microsoft
IP/customer data and ensures all hardware is handled in an environmentally sound manner. All broken
and retired technology hardware – including, but not limited to notebook and desktop PCs,
workstations and servers, monitors, printers, telecom and network peripherals, hard drives,
smartphones, and PDAs – must be turned over to Microsoft Technology Recycling. All data is
completely removed from media prior to asset recycling by Microsoft data centre personnel. The
utility is designed to wipe (eradicate with zeros) data on physical hard drives, and is based on the
wiping technology found in the forensic utility DRIVESPY.
Disaster Management and Business Continuity
Today the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online service protects against data loss and provides high
availability through redundant system components and backup/recovery management procedures. To
minimize the impact of planned or unplanned downtime, the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online service
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offers customer data redundancy within our datacentres. As a precaution against catastrophic failure
of multiple systems, full data backup to tape is done on a daily basis and taken to a secure offsite
facility. In addition, periodic backups of server data are taken to enable the restoration of entire server
volumes or the reinstatement of data files to the last saved state.
Beginning with the November 2011 Service Update, the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online team plans
to further enhance the recovery management services by offering data redundancy across multiple
data centres within a region. This update will be progressively rolled out and currently planned for
completion by Q1 CY2012.
This is enabled through technology introduced with the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server (2012).
Below is a description of the technology and architecture that will support our future disaster recovery
plans.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Utilizing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 as the backend, the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online November
2011 Service update offers an integrated high availability and disaster recovery solution that provides
redundancy within a data centre and across data centres. This enables fast application failover during
planned and unplanned downtime. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online utilizes the AlwaysOn Availability
Groups feature of SQL Server 2012 to ensure the availability of application databases. This capability
provides an integrated set of options for fast application failover and automatic page repair. Microsoft
Dynamics CRM Online utilizes the AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances to support multi-site clustering
which enable cross-data centre failover of SQL Server instances.
Datacenter Redundancy
As part of Microsoft’s vision and business mission around the cloud, Microsoft has invested in
additional data centre capacity in three geographies around the world:
1. North America (NA),
2. Europe Middle-East and Africa (EMEA),
3. and Asia Pacific (APAC)
Each of the Geographies will have two data centres to support Disaster Recovery. This will ensure that
you still have your mission-critical customer data physically residing in data centres in your region in
the unlikely event of a data centre interruption. This is enabled through technology introduced with
the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server (2012).
Disaster Recovery
All customers will be provisioned on at least two data centres for disaster recovery. Customer data is
stored on a primary database with three real time mirrors (one local and two remote). This provides
continuous data protection with near instant recovery of damaged database. Network components,
load balancers, Web servers, and application servers are all configured in a redundant configuration.
Periodic tests are executed through the year to validate Disaster Recovery plans
Failovers
Using the capabilities of SQL Server 2012, local server failures within a data centre will be seamless
and a transition to the local secondary server will happen in real time.
For an unplanned failover that requires a cross datacentre move, customers will experience minimal
data loss. The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for the service is < 5 minutes. The Recovery Time
Objective (RTO) for the service is < 43 minutes. During a failover, the customer perceived performance
should remain unchanged (all customers can be serviced from either data centre)
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Back up
All Customer data is backed-up nightly to external storage and moved off-site.
Business Continuity Plan
While Microsoft has put in place comprehensive measures to ensure a high level of performance and
availability for its Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online service, it is continually enhancing its service
delivery infrastructure. In particular, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is looking to improve its disaster
recovery and business continuity plan in Q1 CY2012. The plan will cover, but is not limited to, the
following components:
Business impact analysis
o Business process criticality
o Specification of recovery point objective
o Maximum allowable downtime
o Recovery site capacity
Risk assessment
o Covering regulatory, operational, technological, legal, financial, information security,
physical security, and personnel concerns
Plan development and maintenance
o Conditions for activating the plan
o Procedures to relocate essential business activities
o Maintenance schedule that specifies how and when the plan is to be revised and tested
o Roles and responsibilities describing who is responsible for executing all aspects of the
plan
o Change management process to ensure changes are replicated to contingency
environments
o Identification of applications, equipment, facilities, personnel, supplies, and vital records
necessary for recovery
o Regular updates from the inventory of IT and telecom assets
Incident management and communications
o Strategy and communications plan for disaster declaration
o Designated virtual or physical command centre
o A backup command centre if the primary command centre is not available
Testing and reporting
o Annual test plan
o Facilities, Infrastructure, and backup sites
o Detail the distance between organization’s primary datacentre and all your organization’s
datacentre backup sites
o Provisions for the continuous replenishment of generator fuel from vendors
o Backup facilities with a UPS system and emergency power generators
o Reliance on a different power grid and telecommunications grid from those used by the
primary site
Look for updated information on the Business Continuity plan in early Q1 CY2012
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1.12 On-boarding and Off-boarding
Customers can use the on-boarding team available on 0800-376-2862
This team can set up new trials for customers or help guide in conversion of existing trials into the full
service and set up the billing service.
The same team can be used for customers wishing to off-board from the service.
1.13 Pricing
DSD-00001 – The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online standard configuration (as defined on Page 8) is
priced for G-Cloud at £25.96 per user per month.
Customers can purchase CRM Online in either of the following ways:
1) Credit Card
2) Invoice
3) Volume Agreements : Enterprise Agreements, Campus and School Agreement Programs
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2. CRM Online Service Management
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online has a well-defined change control process to provide applicable
patches and/or upgrades. This includes deployment and verification of patches in a pre-production
environment, scheduled maintenance windows for production deployment, and a defined notification
processes to help minimize interruption of the service. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online notifies
customers (administrators and in some cases users) through various methods including the website,
application, and email of scheduled or unscheduled updates and changes to the service. For planned
service interrupting events (such as service maintenance), customers are notified five days in advance.
2.1 Service Monitoring
The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online application and website are monitored on a 24x7 basis for
reliability and performance. The Operations group monitors the network for security vulnerabilities
and intrusion using monitoring and detection systems on a continuous basis. All of the monitoring
tools route any issues, warnings, and problems directly to service engineers.
The service has multiple layers of monitoring in place. The infrastructure/platform layer is monitored
using Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager (SCOM). SCOM monitors for events related to
provisioning, service failures, and threshold attainment (such as memory consumption). Transaction
monitoring to simulate critical customer scenarios is accomplished with a third-party monitoring
solution. This third-party solution monitors for events related to the CRM portal, trial sign-up,
application sign-in, organization discovery, and scale group availability.
2.2 Monitoring Approach
Third-party solution
o Summary
Transactional monitoring
Simulates customer actions
Sends alerts when scenarios fail
Does not diagnose why the problem exists, only that the problem does exist
o Monitors every five minutes across all datacentres using public agents
Signup with Windows Live ID
Signup without Windows Live ID
Sign in (to each scale group)
o Support
Third-party solution engineer designs the scripts
24x7 support for script deployment
Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager
o Summary
Infrastructure monitoring
Management packs for Windows Server, SQL Server, IIS, and CRM application
Critical alerts sent to the Microsoft Operations Centre for resolution and/or escalation
SCOM deployed in all datacentres
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When an issue is detected at the platform or transactional layer, it is escalated to the Microsoft
Operations Centre (MOC), where an attempt is made to resolve the issue based on the library of
troubleshooting guides defined by the CRM Service Operations team. If the attempt at resolution is
not successful, the MOC will escalate to a CRM service engineer for resolution. The MOC has a full
escalation matrix, which uses a system that contains email and phone contact information for all
service engineers for the service. The CRM Service Operations team defines the escalation order each
week and the MOC follows those instructions for escalations to the team. In most cases, the MOC is
able to resolve issues on its own without needing to escalate to the CRM Service Operations team.
Incident data is stored in logs which are available for review by internal Microsoft staff, namely
Microsoft Operations personnel. Incident data is currently not available for review by external
audiences, be it customers or partners.
2.3 Service Reporting
All monthly incidents are reviewed and categorized to identify the biggest problem areas. A monthly
quality of service (QoS) meeting is held to review findings and action plans. Previous month’s action
items are reviewed until closed. The CRM Service Operations team is in a constant cycle of improving
the quality of the service month over month.
Service availability is also reviewed monthly for each datacentre. Microsoft has a monitoring service
that checks for sign-in availability to a specific organization every five minutes. The ratio of failures to
successes gives Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online its availability for the month.
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2.4 Training
Recommended Roles
Organizations should consider staffing the following roles:
Business owner and managers—Business owners and managers provide the leadership
necessary for success, and guide decisions about the way Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is
deployed. Although they do not have to understand the details of installation and
configuration, they must be aware of the system configuration and maintenance
requirements.
Executive sponsor—in small organizations, this role may be the same as the business owner or
managers. In larger organizations, this person provides the link between the project manager
and upper management. This person must understand the details of the installation and
configuration, understand the schedule, and work with outside vendors.
Implementation project manager—The project manager is the person who directs the work
and makes things happen. This person must understand the details of the installation and
configuration, understand the schedule, know the other team members and their
contributions, and work with outside vendors.
System customizer—The system customizer is responsible for configuring and customizing
the system to fit your specific business needs. This may include adding or removing fields,
implementing workflows, updating system views, and other configuration elements.
System administrator—The system administrator may have several responsibilities, including
configuring system settings, configuring and assigning security Roles, setting up and
configuring the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online for Outlook software, and performing regular
data b9999ackup using the bulk data export tool. Note that is in addition to performing
business continuity backups maintained by Microsoft operations personnel.
Training
Training requirements will vary according to many factors, including the type of training, role being
trained for, and the number of people to be trained.
Several training options are available for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, including both free and
paid options:
E-learning—E-learning courses are available at no additional charge.
Classroom training—classroom training is available on a fee basis worldwide from a network
of Microsoft Certified Learning Solutions Partners.
Course manuals—Course manuals for classroom training offerings are available for free
download.
Customized training—customized training based on your customizations to the CRM
application is available from Microsoft partners.
Ongoing training—Ongoing training is also available from Certified Microsoft Partners.
For more information, see http://crm.dynamics.com/en-us/support/training.aspx.
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2.5 Ordering and invoicing process
Customers can order in the following ways
1) Credit Card – customer can provide details and pay online for monthly billing
2) Invoicing – Customer can call 0800-376-2862 and set up a monthly invoice for usage.
3) Volume Agreements - Enterprise Agreements, Campus and School Agreement Programs.
Customers can transact through the reseller of their agreement as a one off annual cost.
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2.6 Termination terms
TERM AND TERMINATION
4.1 Termination by Microsoft. Microsoft may cancel or suspend Customer’s use of the Service or a
portion of thereof at any time if Customer violates the terms of this Agreement, if Microsoft
believes that Customer’s use of the Service represents a direct or indirect threat to its network
function or integrity or anyone else’s use of the Service, or if Microsoft is otherwise required by
law to do so. Upon notification by Microsoft of any such cancellation or suspension,
Customer’s right to use the Service will stop immediately. Cancellation or suspension of the
Service for Customer’s violation of the terms of this Agreement will not change Customer’s
obligation to pay any Subscription fees due for the applicable Term.
4.2 Termination by Customer. Customer may cancel the Service at any time for any reason. To
cancel, Customer should call Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online support. To find regional contact
information for support, go to: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=76092. If Customer
cancels the Service before the end of the Term, Customer will be charged a cancellation fee of
$175 per User for the total number of Users on Customer’s Subscription as of the date of
cancellation, except if Customer cancels within 30 days of the end of Term, in which case no
cancellation fee shall apply, but Customer will pay any remaining Subscription Fees through the
remainder of the Term. Notwithstanding the foregoing, during the initial Term, Customer may
cancel its Subscription at any time within the first 30 days of the Term without being charged a
cancellation fee. If Customers cancel the Services in order to migrate to Microsoft’s on-premise
or partner-hosted offerings, the cancellation fee will be waived; provided, however, that this
waiver is only available in connection with active Subscriptions for which Customer has paid at
least three months of Subscription Fees. Customer must provide proof of purchase of the on-
premise or partner-hosted offering in order to have its cancellation fee waived. To begin the
migration process, Customer should call Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online support. To find
regional support contact information, go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=76092.
4.3 Reduction of Users. Customer may reduce the number of User Licenses that it has with the
Service at any time for any reason. If Customer reduces the number of User Licenses in
Subscription at any time during the Term, it will be charged a fee of $175 per User License
disabled, plus the applicable pro-rated fee for each User License disabled for the period of
usage up to the date of cancellation. To reduce the number of User Licenses, Customer should
contact Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online support. To find regional support contact information,
use the following link:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=76092
4.4 Effect of termination. Upon termination or cancellation of the Service by either party for any
reason, Microsoft may delete Customer’s data permanently from its servers. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, Microsoft will keep Customer’s data for a period of 90 days before it is deleted
from Microsoft’s servers. Customer is solely responsible for taking the necessary steps to back
up its data and ensure that it maintains its primary means of business.
4.5 Waiver of rights and obligations. To the extent necessary to implement the termination of this
Agreement, each party waives any right and obligation under any applicable law or regulation
to request or obtain intervention of the courts to terminate this Agreement.
4.6 No liability for deletion of data. Customer acknowledges that, other than as expressly
described in these terms, Microsoft will have no obligation to continue to hold, export or return
Customer’s data. Customer acknowledges that Microsoft will have no liability whatsoever for
deletion of Customer data pursuant to these terms.
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2.7 Data restoration / service migration
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online customers have the option of migrating to an on-premises
implementation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM or a partner-hosted solution.
To initiate a migration, customers must request an export of their organization data from Microsoft
Dynamics CRM Support. Requests for trial exports are processed every Tuesday by using the latest
existing backups, and there is no effect on the use of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. For the final
export, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Support must disable the organization and make a full backup of the
data. Processing of final export requests starts on Thursday; the data is prepared and published on
Friday. Total downtime is approximately 1-2 business days. Importing the data to a partner-hosted or
on-premises deployment should take less than a day.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Data Migration Manager can be used to convert and upload data from
another CRM system to Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online also supports the
ability to export data to Excel based on specific user-defined views.
Cancellation fees for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online are waived when a customer migrates to
another Microsoft Dynamics CRM option, and there are no fees charged for the migration other than
standard licensing costs for the new deployment type.
Additional information is available at:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?DisplayLang=en&id=18039.
Separately, Microsoft Services offers a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Migration Service for
customers migrating from competitive solutions whereby a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer will:
Work with the customer to determine data requirements
Develop a migration strategy and identify proper tools and techniques to use during the data
migration project
Complete a test data migration to determine whether data mappings are correct
Migrate existing customer data to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online
More information on this service is available at www.microsoft.com/services.
2.8 Consumer responsibilities
The customer (and/or partner) has the following support responsibilities:
Microsoft may provide the customer (or partner) with certain support and diagnostic tools from time to time
to perform problem determination and resolution activities. It is our expectation that the customer (and/or
partner) will use these tools as appropriate to resolve issues prior to escalating to Microsoft.
Customer (and partner) agrees to respond to satisfaction surveys provided by Microsoft from time to time
regarding Microsoft services.
Customer should generally resolve all Tier 1 and Tier 2 issues, including but not limited to:
Issues that can be resolved by reference to "how to" articles and FAQs.
Software configuration.
Client connectivity.
Client desktop support.
Service availability issues within the customer's span of control.
Performance issues within the customer's span of control.
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2.9 Technical requirements
The following operating systems are supported for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web client:
Windows 7 (all versions)
Windows Vista (all versions)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3
Microsoft Windows XP Home SP3
Windows XP Media Centre Edition SP3
Microsoft Windows XP Tablet SP3
In addition, the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web client requires one of the following Internet Explorer Web browser versions:
Internet Explorer 7 and above.
Future updates to the product, which are due in 2012 will include support for 3rd
party browsers, which currently are:
Firefox
Safari
Chrome
To use Microsoft Dynamics CRM with Microsoft Office integration features, such as Export to Excel and Mail Merge, you must
have one of the following installed Microsoft Office versions on the computer that is running the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web
client:
Microsoft Office 2003 SP3
2007 Microsoft Office system SP2
Office 2010
Note
Microsoft Windows 2000 editions are not supported for installing and running the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web client.
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2.10 Client Performance
The performance of Dynamics CRM clients is directly affected by to two primary factors:
The hardware on which the clients are running
The network over which the service is accessed
While upgrading hardware to improve client performance is relatively straightforward, optimizing the
network that supports a Microsoft Dynamics CRM implementation is a critical step for ensuring that
the overall system operates efficiently.
The primary factors that define network performance are bandwidth and latency.
Bandwidth is the width or capacity of a specific communications channel.
Latency is the time required for a signal to travel from one point on a network to another;
latency is a fixed cost between two points. To optimize for latency, eliminate as many round
trips per request as possible.
Networks with high bandwidth do not guarantee low latency. For example, a network path traversing
a satellite link often has high latency, even though throughput is very high. It is not uncommon for a
network round trip traversing a satellite link to have five or more seconds of latency. An application
designed to send a request, wait for a reply, send another request, wait for another reply, and so on,
will wait at least five seconds for each packet exchange, regardless of how fast the server is.
Important: It is recommended to test the implications of client performance in any WAN environment
with potential bandwidth or latency issues. As is the case with most cloud services, there are certain
aspects of network performance that are outside of the direct control of either Microsoft (Microsoft
Dynamics CRM Online) or the customer. The customer may want to investigate different options for
network optimization. In some situations, the customer may consider changing their current Internet
connectivity provider in favour of a different one that offers better routing to the Microsoft
datacentre.
2.11 Details of any trial service available
Details of the Dynamics CRM Online Trial can be found at http://crm.dynamics.com/en-gb/trial-
overview.
The trail runs for 30 days and is completely free. No Credit card details are required and the trial has
the full features and capabilities of the live service.
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3. G-Cloud Award Question Cross Reference
The following section provides a cross reference to the Award Questions into respective sections
within the service definition.
3.1 Generic Questions
Q-G06 Networks to which the service is
connected (directly)? Public Internet
Q-G07 'API' access available, documented and
supported? See APIs, SDK
Q-G08 Open Standards supported and
documented? See APIs, SDK and Technical requirements
Q-G09 Open source software used and
documented? No
3.2 Service Management
Q-G10 Technical boundaries/interfaces of the
service documented? See Technical requirements
Q-G11 Services available to other suppliers so
they can use them to provide services to
government?
1.1 Yes – See Custom Code on Microsoft Servers
Q-G12 On-boarding process e.g. moving on to
the service? See On-boarding and Off-boarding
Q-G13 Off-boarding process e.g. moving off
the service? See On-boarding and Off-boarding
Q-G14 Data extraction/removal criteria met? See Data restoration / service migration
Q-G15 Data processing and storage locations
defined? See Data Centre Tier
Q-G16 Data location option can be defined by
user? No
Q-G17 Data held in Safe Harbour (if
applicable)?
See Data Storage
Q-G18 Data centre(s) used adhere to best
practices described by the EU Code of
Conduct for Data Centre Operations?
See Data Centre Tier
Q-G19 Data centre tier? See Data Centre Tier
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Q-G20 Support boundaries/interfaces of the
service documented? See CRM Online Service Management
Q-G21 Service roadmap provided?
Yes – Inbuilt to each of the service elements
Q-G22 Performance attributes defined and
documented? See Client Performance
Q-G23 Backup & Disaster Recovery? See Backup/restore and Disaster Recovery
Q-G24 Is a support service provided and
documented? See CRM Online Service Management
Q-G25 'Real time' management information
available? No
Q-G26 Reports include each billed unit? Yes
Q-G27 Self service provisioning/de-
provisioning? No
Q-G28
Indicative time for provisioning/de-
provisioning documented?
Yes
See On-boarding and Off-boarding Termination terms
Q-G29 3rd party service monitoring tool
access? No
Q-G30 Service Desk can be used by 3rd party
suppliers for their services - e.g. small
SaaS provider?
Yes; This is implicit in Microsoft’s agreements
3.3 LOT 3 - Software as a Service (SaaS)
Clients
Q-LOT3-1 Web browser interface? Primary
Q-LOT3-2 Supported web browsers documented? See Technical requirements
Q-LOT3-3 Details of other thin client modes
documented? See Technical requirements
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Q-LOT3-4 Other client software documented? See Technical requirements
Q-LOT3-5 Smartphone Access? See Mobility device support
Q-LOT3-6 Off-line working & synching? See Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online (Standard/Only
Configuration)
General Features
Q-LOT3-7 Attachment support? Yes
Q-LOT3-8 Anti-virus protection? No
Q-LOT3-9 International Language Support? See Key Technical Benefits
Q-LOT3-10 Workflow facilities? Yes
Q-LOT3-11 Importable taxonomy? No
Q-LOT3-12 Folksonomy support? No
Q-LOT3-13 Taxonomy facilities? No
Q-LOT3-14 Plug-in / extension ready? 1.2 See Custom Code on Microsoft Servers
Q-LOT3-15 Plug-in / extension marketplace? 1.3 See Custom Code on Microsoft Servers
Q-LOT3-16 Syndication? Yes
Q-LOT3-17 Native search? Yes
Q-LOT3-18 Native support of bulk input / export of
data & meta-data in standard formats? See Data restoration / service migration
Q-LOT3-19 Link Management? Yes
Business Continuity
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Q-LOT3-20 Separated environments: Publishing /
Editing / Search? No
Q-LOT3-21
Caching?
Local caching and Geo-redundant datacentres
See Data Centre Tier
Authorisation, Authentication and Personalisation
Q-LOT3-22 Integration with Identity Systems? See Authentication
Q-LOT3-23 User profile page? See Authentication
Q-LOT3-24 Comment on item? No
Integrated Communications tools
Q-LOT3-25 Instant Messaging? No
Q-LOT3-26 eDiscovery? No
Q-LOT3-27 Migration Tools Available? No
Q-LOT3-28 Video Conferencing? No
Q-LOT3-29 Social Networking? Yes
Q-LOT3-30 Social Networks?
Social connectors available for: Facebook, MSN,
LinkedIn, Twitter and native integration with Lync
Federation allows I.M/Video conversations with other
Organisations using Lync, OCSR2 or OCS and also users
of MSN/Live Messenger Social Networks.
Q-LOT3-31 Calendars? Yes
Q-LOT3-32 Contact Management?
See An overview of the G-Cloud Service
Q-LOT3-33 To Do Management?
See An overview of the G-Cloud Service
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User Generated Content
Q-LOT3-34 Solution provides Blogging capabilities? No
Q-LOT3-35 Solution provides wiki capabilities? No
Q-LOT3-36 Solution provides forum capabilities? Yes
Q-LOT3-37 Solution provides content rating
capabilities?
Yes
Q-LOT3-38 Solution provides content
recommendation capabilities?
Yes
Q-LOT3-39 Solution provides social media sharing
e.g. tweet this?
Yes
Q-LOT3-40 Solution provides automated stop word
filtering?
No
3.4 Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Q-LOT3-191 What is the name for the service (if
different from response in "About your
Services" section)?
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online
Q-LOT3-192 Price for most common configuration
(i.e. Supplier's best selling or expected
best selling configuration)?
£25.96 per user per month - DSD-00001
See Pricing
Q-LOT3-193 Minimum service unit pricing interval? Per user per month - See Pricing
Q-LOT3-194 Is the service Public or Private? Public
Q-LOT3-195 Impact Levels (ILs) at which the service
is accredited to process and/or store
information (actual or target)?
See Information assurance
Q-LOT3-196 Has the service been accredited? See Information assurance
Features
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Q-LOT3-197 Service automates business processes
such as marketing / customer
engagements?
See An overview of the G-Cloud Service
Q-LOT3-198 Account Level Management? See An overview of the G-Cloud Service
Q-LOT3-199 Campaign Management? See An overview of the G-Cloud Service
Q-LOT3-200 Forecasting? See An overview of the G-Cloud Service
Q-LOT3-201 Partner Integration? See Custom Code on Microsoft Servers
Q-LOT3-202 3rd party tool / plug-in ready? See Custom Code on Microsoft Servers
Q-LOT3-203 Tool library / store?
See An overview of the G-Cloud Service
(MarketPlace)
Q-LOT3-204 Data export? See Data restoration / service migration
Q-LOT3-205 Data export formats? .doc, .docx, .txt, .xls, .csv, .XML, .html, .PDF
See Data restoration / service migration
Q-LOT3-206
Native Integrated Functions?
Workflow / Instant messaging & Presence / Video
conferencing / Email / etc
See An overview of the G-Cloud Service